Category Archives: music

We always knew that with all your nipple-showing and lesbian-kissing and crotch-grabbing that you’re obsessed with sex, and today we have the science to back it up: “Approximately 92% of the 174 songs that made it into the [Billboard] Top 10 in 2009 contained reproductive messages,” says SUNY Albany psychology professor Dawn R. Hobbs in Evolutionary Psychology. That’s right–”reproductive messages,” our newest favorite euphemism.

Scientists at Goldsmiths University conducted new research into what makes a song memorable and compiled a list of the ten “catchiest” songs of all time. The scientists found that ‘We Are The Champions’ was the track most were able to sing along to. This was followed by ‘Y.M.C.A’ by the Village People, Sum 41‘s ‘Fat Lip’, Europe‘s ‘The Final Countdown’ and The Automatic‘s ‘Monster’. MORE

Basically, Facebook Music is not a service. It’s a feature that’s shared among different kinds of content and media. Any digital music service (or really any other content service) can use Facebook’s new API to integrate themselves into the platform. Not only will that allow subscribers to authenticate themselves using their Facebook login, it also gives them an option to add any song, album, radio channel or artist that they subsequently listen to on that service to appear on Facebook for others to see. And, it allows their friends to view a report of their top songs, artists, albums and channels based on their listening history. All users need to do is select the “Add to Timeline” button in the service one, and all activity will be seamlessly recorded from that point on.